Carl Warner's "Foodscapes". it's all about food!!






Carl Warner's "Foodscapes". it's all about food!!

i was supposed to be staying at home and work hard for my assignments yesterday, giving that the dateline is getting closer and closer everyday, but instead i went for a seafood trip to tanjung sepat. anyway it's not the seafood that made the trip memorable. it's the unforgetable and amazingly hot and sticky trip to there and back home that marked our journey. for your information, tanjung sepat is a small kampung which is further down after banting. so we headed from college to klang, then to banting and finally tanjung sepat. the van we rented was late and the uncle didn't get his aircon fixed and ngam ngam these few days is very hot along the day. and his van is so freakingly teruk and slow that we feel like it will fall apart any time. so we were packed inside the van,enjoying our sauna treatment and sweating and sticky all the way down to tanjung sepat. it turns out that most of my collegemates are from kampung area and noe more about kampung den i am. so turned out i am the one that looks like kampung girl. but what to do, it's been a long time since i go back to my kampung already. so i just keep my eyes wide open and look at all the "extraordinary" events happening in the village. also, the village is not that kampung at all. just that they have all the greens that the city dont have. their houses are bigger than ours, lands are filled with green vege, and dua dua liap mangos. toobad they are not ripped yet. if not we sure can get a truckload back. :)

the "pao" shop that kononnya very nice. but for me is okok oni.

uncle and auntie preparing dough for the pao. too bad there started to use machine to make all the pao now. i prefer handmade. : )

auntie putting red marks on the 梅菜包

rows of 生肉包waiting to be cooked

aunties stuffing the 梅菜into the machine made dough

some mushrooms in the mushroom plantation garden

raw coffee "fruit".

very nice juice made from 沙里果.

picking mangoes from my fren's house. that is my lecturer.

sunsets at the swamp.

and there's one more extra good news though.

my sis is getting MARRIED!!!!!!

wahahhahaha.. i noe i shud be happy for her, but i feel sad though. it's feel like we are getting parted for sure already(although now we already seldom meet each other). anyway, i'm still glad that she found someone to take care of her. being a big sister in the family isn't easy. she didn't get the chance to really fulfill her dreams but have to take care of us everytime. so hope she will get all the blessings that she need and have a happy life with jonathan. :)

THE DEAD.
being an ignorant person, i have no idea when is our chinese festival chingming was. but my mom gave order for the whole family to go for tomb sweeping(straight translation :p)

so we woke up early in the morning and sis' fren fetch us to cheras. the place doesn't look as how i remembered. mayb it's not the right season. the trees are not bearing flowers. the air is damp. it rains for the past few days. it is not that serene anymore. well mayb it's my heart that is not serene anymore. i tot i've stopped remembering the sorrow already. but once i was there i realise all the pain is still in my heart, it nvr disappear.

anyway, family is discussing about making a tomb for my dad. yea.. ever since he was buried we still haven erect a proper tomb for him. a long story to tell. then i start talking bout i designing the tomb. however i feel a bit reluctant to do that. i dont feel like pouring cements and concrete over him. though it's abit eery to say so, i feel better when there are plants(actually is just weeds) growing from where he lies. he loved gardening anyhow. i alwiz rather to be buried than burnt after i died, honestly. it makes me think that one day if i came alive i can climb out from my tombstone. if i was burnt i was nothing already. i'm sorry if i scared u with my thoughts XD. just forget wat i say. :)

my dad's "neighbours"

yeap this is my pity old man's place.
the cross that mark his place was gone. probably blown away by wind. sigh..

this is my 2nd week of holiday.. and i have to start SKETCHING already!! sigh.. feel wanna die now.. from monday i tell myself " still got whole week... watch movie first la" den to tuesday, wed, and now, my paper is still blank.. every time i sit infront of my desk and facing the paper for dunno how long oso nothing comes out. sighh.. i need more holidays, to drown myself in laziness.

i hate my mind being blank..